Fiske, JohnThe Discovery of America, with Some Account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest, In Two VolumesBoston Houghton Mifflin Company 1900 early printing Hardcover Very Good+ Maps, some folding and b/w figures; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Two volume set, complete. Bound in original blue cloth with title lettering brightly in gilt to spines. Appears unread with some pages unopened. Top edges brightly gilt. Snugly bound and very neat with just a touch of mild shelf evidence to extremities. Illustrated with maps, some folding. Handsome example. VG++ to NF ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.
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35.00 USD

Fitch, JohnGenealogy of the Fitch Family in North AmericaCleveland, OH Self-Published; Samuel Barker, Printer 1886 First Edition; Limited edtion Hard cover Good Good. No dust jacket as issued. ; First edition. 115 pgs; errata sheet at rear; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 115 pages; Original private printing, limited to 200 copies. Brown cloth with bevelled edges; title stamped in gilt to cover. Spine unlettered, as issued; double gilt rules to spine faded. Mild toning to paperstock. 4 page section including title page portrudes slightly from fore edge. This copy complete, including original floral decorated endpages and original photographic print of the Fitch homestead in Coventry Conn. Tipped in on page 34. Boards rubbed at corners and spine ends. Binding a bit shaken but generally sound with no loose or missing pages. A previous owner has made extensive additions and a correction or two to pages 99-101, in the matter of descendants of Rev James Fitch through the lines of his sons Nathanel and Joseph. Additions total perhaps 30 names in total with several notations of marriage. Errata sheet pasted in on rear endpage. Sound if a bit fragile and exceedingly uncommon in the original edition. Noteworthy additions in a period hand. Good
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185.00 USD

Franklin, Benjamin & Jared Sparks, editorThe Works Of Benjamin Franklin. [in Ten Volumes] Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published. with Notes and Life of the Author by Jared Sparks.Boston Hilliard, Gray, and Company ; Tappan & Dennett 1840 First Edition Leather Very Good+ Plates, some folding: Engravings, maps, portraits; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 183 7- 1844. Hilliard, Gray, and Company ; Tappan & Dennett: Boston. Ten volumes, complete. Uniformly bound in mid 19th century speckled calf with black leather title and volume labels to spine. Mixed imprints with 7 volumes (five 1st editions) published with the Hilliard imprint; Vols II, III & IV with the Tappan & Dennett imprint dated 1844. Handsome and well preserved set with only minimal rubbing to leather at edges. Spines darkening; some rubbing and cracking to black leather labels. All volumes retain half-title pages; coated yellow ensheets are clean and intact. Some scattered foxing, here and there moderately heavy but generally pages are bright and clean. Illustrated with engraved plates and maps, some folding; some frontispieces. Tide line across the bottom corner of the lower board of Volume I - no damp evidence to any pages. Volumes V through X are 1st editions. Handsome set. VG+ ... Oversize book set will require additional charges for most shipping methods.
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700.00 USD

Freeman, Douglas SouthallGeorge Washington; a Biography; in Six Volumes, Slipcased 1st Editions: I & II, Young Washington; III, Planter & Patriot; IV, Leader of the Revoulution; V, Victory with the Help of France; VI, Patriot and PresidentNew York Charles Scribner's Sons 1954 First Edition; First Printing Hardcover Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket Maps, portraits and views; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 1948 - 1954. Charles Scribner. Six volume set, all that were written by Freeman, thus complete. First five volumes are 1st printings with Colophon and Scribner A on copyright page and are all slipcased, as issued. Vols I & II in a unique slipcase with pictorial paper title labels, as are Vols II & IV. Volume V in a single volume slipcase with matched pictorial and typographic attachemts. Volume VI lacks the Scribner A but was printed in 1954, also lacking a lipcase. Uniformly bound in navy blue cloth with title designs brightly in gilt to spines. Uniformly bright, snug and clean; illustrated with maps, portraits and views. Volume I has a few small white drip spots to the spine; Vol II & III with a single such drip spot. Mild handling soil to boards of first two volumes. The two volume slipcases are a little rubbed at edges with partial splits at one or two seams reinforced with archival paper tissue tape. An overall handsome and well preserved set, lacking only the last volume published posthumously and written by others. VG+ in near VG slipcases. ... Oversize set will require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.
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495.00 USD

Fry, J. Reese.Life of Gen. Zachary Taylor, Comprising a Narrative of Events Connected with His Professional Career.Philadelphia Grigg, Elliot & Co 1848 Hardcover Good Engravings; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 332 pages; Hardcover in publisher's original brown cloth with title lettering and pictorial vignette brightly in gilt to spine. Complete copy including original endpages and all engraved illustrations. Corners bumped with rubbing thorugh to boards; rubbed and nicked at spine ends. Foxing and staining scattered throughout, sometime a bit heavily so. Several signature starting, two or three more significantly so. Still a complete and sound copy and a decent reader or filler copy. Good only
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40.00 USD